Category: DFB

Une nouvelle page pour des WEBCAMS

Une nouvelle page vient d’être créée pour quatre webcams qui montrent en temps réel certains points stratégiques de la Ligne Sommitale de la Furka.
A new page has been created for four webcams which show in real time some strategic points of the Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway.

The steam and rack locomotiveSLMHG4/4No.40-308, seen here in the 1960son the lineKrongPha–DaLata, was deliveredbySchweizerischeLokomotivundMaschinenfabrikWinterthurin Vietnamin 1930.In 1990, it was repatriatedin Switzerlandas part ofthe return to serviceof the Furka Cogwheel Steam Railwaytogetherfivelocomotives.It is currentlybeing restoredby theDFBvolunteersin Churin Graubünden, Switzerland.

This is the new date for the real opening of the last section Obewald – Gletsch.
I know the opening of this section was announced several times with different dates. Now I can affirm August 2010 will be the real opening!
Ten years after Gletsch, the train will arrive at Oberwald!